Comey’s Testimony on Huma Abedin Forwarding Emails Was Inaccurate
by Peter Elkind, special to ProPublica, May 8, 2017, 10:39 p.m. FBI director James Comey generated national headlines last week with his dramatic testimony to…
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Fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles: Underresearched and overhyped
Don’t panic: An international survey finds concerns about fake news are overblown. studiostoks/shutterstock.com William H. Dutton, Michigan State University In the early years of the…
How pre-existing conditions became front and center in health care vote
Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) speaks to reporters outside the White House on May 3, 2017 after a meeting with the president on proposed legislation that…
How One Major Internet Company Helps Serve Up Hate on the Web
by Ken Schwencke ProPublica, May 4, 2017, 8 a.m. Since its launch in 2013, the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer has quickly become the go-to…
Why America’s public media can’t do its job
PBS headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. melanie.phung/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Christopher Chávez, University of Oregon When the Trump administration released its proposed budget in March, it suggested…
Trump’s brand of economic populism gets a makeover in first 100 days
Charles Hankla, Georgia State University How can we make sense of the economic policy roller-coaster ride of Donald Trump’s first 100 days as president? Trump’s…
Trump and the history of the ‘first 100 days’
Will history give Trump a thumbs-up for his first 100 days? AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez Robert Speel, Pennsylvania State University The federal government is currently…
Trump’s Wall: How Much Money Does the Government Have For It Now?
by T. Christian Miller ProPublica, April 13, 2017, 1:34 p.m. During the campaign, President Donald Trump promised to build a wall across the southern border…
Will Turkey’s referendum mark the end of democracy and the birth of ‘Erdoğanistan’?
Kremlin.ru [CC BY 3.0 or CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons Simon P. Watmough, European University Institute and Ahmet Erdi Öztürk, Université de Strasbourg Turkey…